Laundry tag



M. G. ROSENTHAL.

LAUNDRY TAG.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 31. 1921.

Patented May 9, 1922.

that there should be two distinct and sepa rate materials employed in the construction, so long as the inner or attaching end of the tag merges into a soft and flexible portion, which can be readily and easily sewed to the goods to be identified, and provision is made for ready suspension.

Upon the body portion of the tag an identification mark is impressed, as A 40. According to a system in vogue for using these tags, each lot of goods from the same source is given a letter and the number of lots a numeral, and the tags are to be used over and over again.

The body of the tag, however, is not itself secured to the goods 15 and the flexible tab is alone attached. This attachment is done preferably on a sewing machine in which a loose tension is provided for the needle thread 10 and a tight tension for the bobbin thread 12. The tight thread then acts as the locking thread, running through comparatively loose loops. After the goods are washed, the thread 12 can be readily drawn out and the tag set free from the goods for subsequent use.

The advantages of my construction are obvious. It combines the good points of the safety pin method; the articles can be strung on the pins or other suspension devices for assembling, drying and the like; the place of attachment of the tag can be readily determined without search; the mark can be indelibly affixed to the tag. The Hat body portion presents no detrimental ma terial to the laundry machinery; and the body portion lends itself readily to a sewing machine attachment for feeding the tags in a hopper or chute rapidly to the machine, carrying the flexible attaching tabs to the machine needle where the tags can be detachably secured even more rapidly than the safety pin constructions can be pinned to the goods.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A laundry tag comprising a stiff body portion, and a flexible tab attached thereto, adapted to be detachably secured by sewing to the goods to be identified.

2. In'a laundry tag, the combination of a metallic plate provided at its outer end with means for suspending same, and having a flexible tab attached at the other end for detachably securing same by sewing to the goods to be identified.

3. In a laundry tag comprising a strip of stiff material provided with a means of suspension, and a strip of soft, flexible material to which the stiff strip is permanently at tached, the soft strip adapted to be dotaehably secured by sewing to the goods to be identified.

MORRIS G. ROSENTHAL. 

